CTO
Location: GB, LND, London
Department: Tech
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Director
Industry: Internet
Function: Information Technology

Company profile:
Depop is an exciting new mobile marketplace where you can sell things by simply taking a picture, as well as follow your friends and buy unique things.Depop has already been received with great enthusiasm in our test regions and it is now beginning to expand into the global market, following funding from highly prestigious venture capitalists.This is an extremely exciting time to join a young, fast growing and very promising company based in the Shoreditch area, backed by some of the most prestigious VC’s in the technology market.

Job description:
Depop is the most fun way to buy and sell straight from your pocket. Sell &amp; buy unique things by simply taking a picture. It’s social, users recently voted the app one of London’s top 10 most loved apps. Depop is a fast-growing mobile social marketplace on a mission to revolutionise mobile e-commerce. This is an extremely exciting opportunity to join an early stage company based in the Shoreditch area of London, backed by some of the most prestigious VC’s in the industry helping to accelerate us building the future of mobile shopping.Depop is experiencing massive growth and we are looking for an outstanding VP Engineering to build our engineering team and scale the Depop platform to take our fast growing user base into the millions. You will design, deliver and deploy a complex social “mobile first” platform and manage the build-out of one of the most exciting mobile commerce companies around. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow a very talented engineering team and be part of the core management team in one of Europe’s most exciting high growth startups ahead of international expansion.You will ideally have been a VP of Engineering in an agile growth environment, sympathetic to your audience, and have delivered a consumer facing product used globally by millions daily. You’ll naturally embrace new technology challenges, actively seek out best practices and be confident scaling rapidly, making smart decisions fast.Working closely with the CEO to define and evaluate the strategic priorities, you will identify new opportunities and foresee potential challenges for the business. You will play a key role in the management team defining the future direction of the platform, while taking full ownership of executing on the roadmap ahead in a predictable manner using rapid iteration cycles.Strategic objectives of the VP Engineering:Build and lead an outstanding engineering team.Scale the platform consisting of: Inventory and user management, Social activity feed, Multi-client API, User to user messaging/chat, Advanced discovery/recommendation system, Deep integration with Facebook and Twitter, Financial transaction handling and e-walletMake the right technology and platform choicesLaunch new key features in a timeline and high-quality mannerImplement the right level of structure and process at the right point in timeCollaborate across the management team to help shape a coherent strategy and plan across all areas of the business.Articulate and communicate our technology strategy to the team, management, board, and new hires

Requirements:
About You:Eager and passionate about growing a startupPrior leadership experience in an early or mid-stage startupExperience building for mobile first.Experience scaling a social platform already used hundreds of thousands of times daily.Preferably experience building and running a payments and wallet systemManaging hosted services with Amazon, Heroku, MongoDB etc.Very credible leader. You naturally takes the lead of our current core team of 6 senior engineersHands on when needed. Leading the engineering team from the front.Strong customer empathy and product driven, easily relating to the customer needs and desires that we are servingEasy to work with at all levels

Benefits:
Generous salary and optionsGreat offices near Old StreetApple equipmentWorking with a well-funded, highly talented and very friendly teamIf this sounds like the role for you, please apply or email  #EMAIL_5bcb798bafeb463a8569b822ca3d60a207c5efa2c31e80cf0139936a02fd54c7# if you have any further questions. We look forward to hearing from you in confidence!